Lexie Abel
Her Beauty
Acrylic paint and plant tannins on canvas
40cm x 60cm
$550
Her Beauty is a direct response to a bush walk with my eldest daughter. Slow intentional lines and shapes represent my need to savour every moment with my children. But especially the rare moments when I get to be with them one on one, out in nature, nothing but conversation and country for company.
This painting is about softness but strength. It's about being intentional with my time and relationships, but still going with the flow. Forever grateful for the beauty in all the moments. But most especially the beauty in the relationships with my children.
Lexie Able
Walking at Kidaman Creek #1
Acrylic, plant tannins, paint pens
60 x 60 cm
SOLD
Walking at Kidaman Creek #1 is the first of a small series of paintings that are an immediate response to my walks on country. This particular property was joyous in the way that the creativity of my friends who live there and their care for country is evident. Yet the history of logging and roads being cut into hills in our region is also still fresh.
The colours are bright to represent how country prevails in both big and small ways. How a gully filled with young gums can fill you with hope. And so does a friend who regulary stops on their morning walk to pull out invasive weeds.
Lexie Able
Lexie Abel is an emerging contemporary artist exploring the natural landscape through a colonised vs coloniser lens. A Wiradjuri descendant, born on Barkindji country, a mother of 4 raising a revolution on Jinibara land. Her work is a representation of her respect for the land in which she lives and creates on.
Dabbling in paint, mark making, weaving, textiles and most recently public murals and sculptural forms. She is also an arts educator who is passionate about accessibility, inclusivity and social activism.
Although her artworks are often recognisable by their playful use of colour, Lexie also uses natural elements to continue the important conversation between country and manmade environments.